Richmond railway station was a railway station that served the town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. The station was the terminus of a branch line that connected with what would become the East Coast Main Line. History Richmond station was the terminus of the now closed Eryholme-Richmond branch line. In 1845, the Great North of England Railway (GNER) was granted powers to construct a branch line from Coopers House near Dalton, six miles south of Darlington, to Richmond. While construction of the line was underway the GNER was reconstituted as the York & Newcastle Railway, and it was this company which opened the line on 1846. Although the line opened on 10 September 1846, the present station at Richmond was not opened until 9 April 1847, a temporary wooden platform being provided in the interim. The line from Dalton Junction (renamed Eryholme Junction in 1911) had stations at Moulton, Scorton and Catterick Bridge, and was double track throughout. These stations are rare in that they were designed in a Tudor style by architect G. T. Andrews. The exuberant architectural style of the early railway stations reflects the desire of the railway companies to promote their new form of travel as a high status experience. The line crossed the River Swale at Easby, and terminated in the Parish of St Martin's on the south bank of the Swale opposite the town of Richmond, as it was considered "geographically impossible" to build the railway into the town. The station layout consisted of two platforms for passenger trains, one which ended in a horse-loading dock, and the other was underneath the main trainshed. Generous facilities were provided for goods traffic, together with facilities for railway operations and staff accommodation. The principal features were: Large goods shed Engine shed Gasworks Signal box (demolished 1968) Station Master's house Goods Agent's house Six staff cottages Two goods staff cottages Water pumping station at Sand Beck. turntable Fifty coal ‘drops’, which were only accessible to trains travelling through the two-road engine shed The station was listed in the Railway Clearing House Handbook for 1904 as being able to handle horse boxes, cattle, vans and genral goods, and was equipped with a crane. The railway also constructed a road bridge over the River Swale and built a road up into the town to provide access to the station. This bridge with four Gothic arches of span and